Aviation needs to copy the Hong Kong model

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Hong Kong: its successful new airport was completed in only six yearsHong Kong Airport Authority/EPA/AFP

Last updated at 12:01AM, November 7 2012

The Times should publish independent research which might offer a perspective not clouded by the aviation lobby

Sir, Because my first contract as an aviation consultant concerned evidence in 1970 to the Roskill Commission’s hearings about Heathrow’s proposed successor at Foulness on the Thames estuary, I had a dreadful feeling of déjà vu on hearing Sir Howard Davies’s riposte to Boris Johnson. He said that he will ignore the prime requirement in the terms of reference issued to him, namely: “the timings for any requirement for additional capacity to maintain the UK’s position as Europe’s most important aviation hub” and that he will ignore “politics” in producing his conclusions. Roskill failed because it would not get to

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